The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-01-16
CATHOLIC CHURCH NOTES.
what Is Going on in Catholic Circles
Throughout the state.

The southern boundary OF the new parish
of Weehswken is Thirteenth street, Hobo
ken.
The plgns for the new church of st.
Lawrence have been already adopted, and
ground will be broken for the foundations
abs ut February 1.
Bishop Wigger will make Lis official visi-
tation to st. Johns church, Paterson. to.
day, Very Rev. Dean McNulty is rector OF
the church.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week
the Bishop visited St. Johns parish on the
Heights, preaching in st. Johns church,
VanWynkle street, on Tuesday evening.
Bishop Wigger, on the occasion OF bis
visitation to st. Joseph's church. Baldwin
avenue, last week made also an official
visit to the Hudson County Catholic Gene
terry ia company with Monsignor Seton, in
whose parish the cemetery is situated.
1t is a striking fact that many of the
greatest ent mics of the Catholic religion
during the active, busy period of their lives
at the point of death seek its consultations.
Two noted, recent examples of this are
Paul Bert the French statesman, both of
whom became reconciled to the church in
their last moments.
Rev. Father Sham essey, the popular
JOuDk CQIdtO az 0bs O11ukcb bt0oACO az
Genoa, italy, and was classmate of Rev.
Doctors Phelan and Schatthoefer, who re-
turned from Italy about three months ago.
Rev. Father Shannessey was obliged to
return home year earlier owing to delicate
health. He speaks Italian fuently.
Rev. NJ. j McManus, rector of st. Jo-
seph's Church, Newton, will sail for Eu-
rope January 25, in company with Verv
Rev. Dean Flynn, of Morristown, by the
steamship Alaska of the Gulon line One
OF the Paulish fathers of 59th street, New
York, will assist Rev Father Farrell at
Morristovn duiing the absence of Very
Rev. Fail or Flynn.
Tickets have been out for some time for
a grand bazaar in aid of the new gymn.-
SUM which is about to be erected Tor the
students and seminarians at Seton Hall
College, South Orange. The bazaar is ex-
pected to be great success. The new col
4ege building in place of that burned last
Spring, is nearly completed, and the re-
feciory is already in use by the students.
According to an enactment of the Third
Plenary Council of Baltimore, which was
also adopted by the Fifth Diocesan Synod
of Newark, held last November, yearly
financial staten ent is required to be mad
by each rector in the Dlocese during the
month of January of each year and posted
up in the church for the space of one
month for public inspection.
Re-. Conrad Sehatthoefer was short
time ago appointed rector of the italian
congregation at Newark, the corner stone
Of whose new church was named in honor
of st. Phil Neri, was laid last Sun lay by
bishop Wigger Rev. Father Mafzetu of
the franciscan Church, Hoboken, made an
address in Italian at the ceremony, and
Monsignor Doane spoke in English.
Rev. Hugh p Cuilum, who was recently
ordained at the Ecclesiastical Seminary,
Troy, n Y, has been appointed curate 1T
ST. Mary 5 church, Clifton, s. L., of which
Rev. Father Barry is rector. Father Gu =
lum said his first nigh mass at the Church
OF st. Paul of the Cross on Hancock ave.
nue. on Christmas day and his boyho cd
was passed in that parish. He belongs to
the Archdiocese of New York.
On Wednesday last Miss Mary n. Nolan
was buried in st. Peters Catholic Cemetery
on Tonnelle avenue she was daughter
of the late Mr. Morgan Nolan, who was the
first Catholic school teacher that taught
scnool in Jersey City. He commenced
teaching school here on October 8, 1887,
for Rev. Hugh NOLAN, at that time pastor
of st. Peters Church, the only Catholic
Church then in the county.
ladies' fair was opened last week in st.
Joseph's church, and from the elaborate
manner in which all the arrangements have
been made, and the multitude of choice
and carefully selected articles of all kinds
displayed on the tables, and the charming
young ladies who are assisting in the good
work, there can be no doubt of it's being at
least as successful as the previous fairs in
ST. Joseph's parish, end it is to be hoped a
great deal more so.
The grand temperance rally which was to
have been held on last Sunday evening at
St. AIichael's Institute, was postponed on
account of the severity of the weather. 1t
will be held this evening, and a rousirg adj
dress will be delivered by Rev. Father Cor
rigan in his common sense, practical style,
which will be well worth going to hear.
Mr.. Charles Scott Butler, of Hoboken, an
artist, and member of the Hoboken l. A.
B Society, will also attend, and address
the meeting. large delegation of the
Hoboken L. A. B. Society, will escort
Father Corrigan to the hall.
On Wednesday, January 10Th, grand
dinner will be rendered the Very Rev.
Dean Fitz Simmons, rector of the Church
of the Immaculate Conception at Camden,
N. j., by the clergy of the Diocese of Tren-
ton, to mark the appreciation of the honor
conferred on him at the recent synod of
Trenton. A presentation and address will
also be made to the Very Rev. Dean on
this anspicious occasion. Right Rev
Bishop OFarrell of Trenton, and many
prominent clergymen of the Dioceses OF
Trenton and Newark will grace the occa-
sion by.their presence.
A new parish has just been established
at Newark. 1t has been formed from por-
tions of the following parishes: st. Pat
yick's. St. Mary's. st. Oolumbia's and st.
James,. 1t comprises large part of the
district lying south of Market street and
west of Broad. The new rector is Rev
Michael j, White, a, prese t first assistant
at the Cathedral, Newark. he was the
only curate appointed one of the Synods
examiners at the recent Synod in Newark
Sister Mary Mead died on the morning